A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter V
Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket. “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped. Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame. “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready! ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
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on the subject of; concerning
From this reading ““That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!”
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading “Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.”
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading ““Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.”
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
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From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
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From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
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From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
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From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
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From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
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From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
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From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
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From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
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From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
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From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
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From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
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From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
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From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
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From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
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From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
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From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
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From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
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From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
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From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
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From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
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From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
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From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
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From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
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From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
